August 28, 2008

Crucified frog Pisses Off Pope but Italian museum refuses to take it down.
posted by es el Queso 16 years ago
  • It's not easy being green.
  • Hey -- I love to defend the role of the artist as much as anyone, but it's hard to do when it's third-rate insipid bullshit.
  • Was it not fairly common for the Romans to crucify folks in those days? How is it that one such victim (and his followers) gets to lay claim to the whole crucifiction concept and even the shape of the cross? Also, PICTURE PLEASE!
  • Pic.
  • He's clearly some sort of supernatural frog - he's not hanging on to the egg atall. Also, we Romans do not crucify! We use "Enhanced Perpendicular Correctional Population Control."
  • I'm with you, rocket88. Nobody said he was the Jesus Frog, did they? Plus, he's obviously got beer there, and Jesus was more of a wine-guy.
  • Ah, the Catholic church, as always, giving free promotion to the arts. I love that banner with not one but TWO of those sacrilegious images they want people not to see!
  • How is it that one such victim (and his followers) gets to lay claim to the whole crucifiction concept and even the shape of the cross? It's copyright Jesus!! Accept no substitutes. (lookin' at you, Baal!) MonkeyFilter: third-rate insipid bullshit
  • From the link: It "has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption," Pahl quoted the pope as writing in the letter. See, I've never been able to understand why the device used to torture and kill Jesus somehow became the "symbol of God's love". What if he had been hung? Would Christians wear nooses around their necks? Would Christian churches have nooses on the steeples? Would we see decals on the rear windows of vehicles that showed a kneeling boy praying to a noose? And what if Jesus had been poisoned, drowned or tossed off a cliff? What symbol then?
  • Bill Hicks had a bit about that very topic, Stirfry!
  • Thanks! I'll try to hunt up a video.
  • One would think that the Pope has more significant issues about which to opine?
  • Yeah, like "What unbelieveably fey, jewel-encrusted chapeau shall I wear today?"
  • Stirfry, watch out, you're f**kin' with Christian logic there!
  • I knew a cranky Tibetan cook in India who didn't have much use for Westerners. He'd stretch out his arms to the sides, tilt his head to the side and stick out his tongue. That "crucifixion brand logo" only makes sense if one was shown it from birth...and shown it in a good light. The other main logo, 10 rules chisled in a rock, has it own problems but isn't as ridiculous as reverence for a torture device.
  • Fuck the Pope.
  • You know, Jackhammer Jesus probably pisses the Pope off too. And if that is not enough, how about Jesus as a baby?
  • It is still a crap piece of art though. But y'know, if it fucks of Ole Red Slippers, then I'll let that go. Go Kermy!
  • Bill Hicks on the cross: "No matter what you believe, beliefs are weird, aren't they? Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Kinda like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on. Just thinkin' of John, Jackie. Just thinkin' of John."
  • >>What if he had been hung? Would Christians wear nooses around their necks? Now THAT would be handy. I keed, I keed.
  • Fuck the Pope. Only if the quidcorpse's dance card is full.
  • I wonder if the Pope's read Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Funny, funny, funny. Bet his royal Poopness wouldn't like that, either.
  • The frog seems whimsical by comparison to this performance art at the Guggenheim in which Marina Abramovic used blocks of ice in the shape of a cross on which to lie naked and self mutilated...
  • Naked AND self-mutilated, you say? *Inserts monocle*
  • if I looking for God him name is hopkin jesus frog I lost my frog Love, Benedict P.S. I'll find my frog Who crucified my frog Who resurrected my frog
  • Kermit died for somebody's sins, but not mine! With apologies to Patti Smith...